Laserdisc: What It Is

Inspired by previous gritty street dramas such as "Shaft Takes the Remote" and "Satellite-Dish Jones", LD: What It Is portrays an accurate depiction of the urban black man's struggle in navigating through a decaying urban jungle of drugs and criminal behavior while simultaneously configuring his home entertainment system. Keep on the look-out for an uncredited Pam Grier cameo as the digital cable phone-support technician. There's a rumor that Quinten Tarantino is considering re-making this classic, but nothing can compare to the original. Like they say in the movie, "Laserdisc, brother. What it IS!!"

This is an old, but still rather impressive demonstration disc advertising the Pioneer VP-1000 LaserDisc player.

Even though it inaccurately depicts the VP-1000 as the first consumer product to use a laser, that honour belongs to the beleaguered Magnavox VH-8000, it goes through a brief timeline of the history of home entertainment, then goes to effectively advertise the features and functionality of this player. Entertaining, but in an educating sort of way as opposed to being unintentionally hilarious like the "Leonard Nimoy demonstrates the MagnaVision videodisc player" programme.

There isn't much to say about this, as it was just a demonstration feature with decent production values, although it is dated.

This disc is a collectable as a limited number were pressed and all copies were not originally available for public sale. The rarest copiees are made in the USA by DiscoVisio Associates, but the better quality copies were made in Japan by Pioneer. - Reinhart